Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439-444

  Fernández, José R ^a,b   Redden, David T ^a   Pietrobelli, Angelo ^a   Allison, David B ^a  

^a Clinical Nutrition Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 5144228166     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2004.06.044     Document Type: Article

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